On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> slep noticed and reported an odd thing:
>>
>> $ euse -i kate
>> ...
>> ls: cannot access 
>> /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-perl-*: No such file or 
>> directory
>> ls: cannot access 
>> /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-ruby-*: No such file or 
>> directory
>> ...
>>
>> The dirs they don't contain ebuilds. Only metadata.
>> KDE team is aware and fixing their orphans.
>>
>> I've decided to write a hack to find such instances in tree:
>>
>> $ ./find_empty.sh ~/portage/gentoo-x86/
>> kde-base/kdeaccessibility-colorschemes
>> kde-base/kdeaccessibility-iconthemes
>> kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
>> kde-base/kdebindings-csharp
>> kde-base/kdebindings-perl
>> kde-base/kdebindings-ruby
>> kde-base/kvtml-data
>> kde-base/smoke
>> media-plugins/mytharchive
>> media-plugins/mythbrowser
>> media-plugins/mythgallery
>> media-plugins/mythgame
>> media-plugins/mythmovies
>> media-plugins/mythmusic
>> media-plugins/mythnetvision
>> media-plugins/mythnews
>> media-plugins/mythweather
>> x11-themes/mythtv-themes
>>
>> Is there any reason to leave such ebuildless directories?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>>
>>  Sergei
>
> Let's get this script added to http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/
>

Speaking about qa-reports, do you think "SRC_URI not using mirror://
when they should" and "metadata.xml not containing remote-id when they
should" belong there ?
If yes, please take a look at:
- https://github.com/iksaif/portage-janitor
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405533
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406287

Thanks,
-- 
Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net

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